Calpurnia Abakumova

Calpurnia Abakumova (1 October 1929 – 1 February 1945), was a retired Russian professional gymnast, and a member of the Auerbach Household. She served as a maid, tutor, and bodyguard to Sonya Auerbach and her younger sisters from the time she turned five in 1 October 1934 to her death in 1 February 1945. She served as the certified photographer of the Auerbach Household, taking a majority of the surviving photographs of deceased members of the Auerbach; including Princess Evelynn, a Princess of Norway who was executed alongside Calpurnia and other members of the Auerbach Household.

Born to a historically-wealthy high-class family in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg), as a youth Calpurnia was a natural in gymnastics and was more mature than a large majority of children her age; Princess Evelynn was raised alongside her as her "sister", with the two eventually becoming servants together in the Auerbach Household. She and Princess Evelynn lived in fear alongside the rest of her family, fearing Joseph Stalin and his ideologies; in the end, she would be killed by Stalin`s plans and declared as a martyr in Christianity. Her many test-tube children, only babies at the time of her death, were raised in the Household of Nikita Khrushchev and his family. Though ethnically a pure-blooded Russian, she and her family were denounced after their deaths by wary neighbors as "defiled Russians" due to associating themselves with the Auerbach Household. Joseph Stalin had also during the time he was alive called them "defiled Russians", causing many Russians to call for their deaths; Nikita Khrushchev denounced the Russians who tarnished the memories of Calpurnia and her family. In fact, Nikita viewed the Germans who murdered Calpurnia, Evelynn, and other members of the Auerbach Household by firing squad as "pathetic worms, who couldn`t hold a candle to Calpurnia and Evelynn`s true sense of bravery."